The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-08-12
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Smoke your fathers Dad -Grahamc
K ConEor.
The fire engine is again in first
class order.
Ray Austin is increasing the Even
ing News list.
Second hand piano for sale cheap.
Enquire at this Office.
Miss Ida Hansen, Of Muskegon, is
visiting at Miss Della Lytle's.
Chas. Stone has gone to Big Rap
ids to pitch for the ball club.
Fred S. Retain will occupy the Bap.
fist pulpit next Sunday mornirg.
HI. H. Parker, Of Mason, visited at
the home of M. c. Dawes this week.
Ed. Taylor started for California on
Tuesday morning to be gone for some
time
Ladies fine shoes. Also gerts.
Rail Road shoes cheap at the ooc
Shoe Store.
Cabinets, Photographs $3.50 per
doz. Finest work in the city at
Moore's and Beebe's.
Oscar Moore is in Chicago attend
ing the annual gathering of the
photographers association of America.
The young ladies mission band of
the M. E. church will give an ice
cream social at the chapel Saturday
evening of this week.
The Rebekahs will give a ten cent
ice cream social Saturday evening at
the residence of Geo. Bennett. west
side. Everybody invited.
A very pleasant social meeting of
E E. Whites S. S. class was held at
his residence last Wednesday eveing.
About twenty were present.
Miss Grace Camp, of Birmingham,
who has been visiting her frierds
Gertrude Lewis, and Myrtle Wiley of
this city has returned home.
Mrs. Peters, of Cassopolis, who has
been visiting Maj. Smith S family re-
turned home this week accompanied
by Mrs. Emma Gates, Of Rush.
Lewis & Son are in the market
for apples, potatoes, onions, beans,
corn, oats, and hay for which they
will pay the highest cash price.
There will be plenty of singing,
dancing and hilarious laughter at the
opera house next Thursday night.
"Skipped" will be the attraction.
John Decker took straw vote Of
the inhabitants of the second ward
living near the school house and
found but one man opposed to voting
the money to the car shops.
Fires have been raging on the
Maple River flats during the past
week, west and south of the city,
destroying considerable property and
burning large quantities of hay.
An eight year old son Of Henry
Brayton was arrested Wednesday for
stealing watch from the, engineer at
the T. & n. M. engine house. The
case was settled. The boy was led on
by older ones.
| The l.. A. S. of the M. E. church
will give lawn social at the residence
of Mr.. L. Hopkins, Wednesday Aug.
18th. Ice cream will be served.
Conveyances will be at the church to
carry all who wish to attend.
John Green, of Shiawassee town.
ship, died at the home of his son in.
law, Aid. Titcomb. on Friday last,
after sickness of three days, aged 65
years. He was here visiting when
taken sick. The funeral services
were held Sunday.
The reunion of the Central Mich
igan Sailors and Soldiers association
of Central Michigan occurs at Ionia
next week. l.. B. Quackenbush Post
of this city will be represented by
about 40 members, the Relief Corps
by about the same number; also a
few members of the S. of V. The
"vets" leave on the evening train
Monday.
Some misunderstanding seems to
exist as to what Ionia did to secure
the shops of the Northern Michigan
system, a system not near as large as
the Ashley system. To settle the
matter let us state that Hon. Mr.
Rich, Of the committee, says they
paid $4,000. That "the shops are
today the backbone of the city's
prosperity"
The opera house will contain a
merry audience next Thursday even
ing drawn thither to witness the
second appearance in this city Of the
famous laughter producing comedy,
"Skipped by the Light OF the Moon,"
a play that can lay claim to the lar
ges, and most successful run of all the
funny plays ever produced, and which
is everywhere greeted by crowds who
receive the comic situations of the
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